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'Seistan. Irrigation report of the Perso-Afghan Arbitration Commission, 1902-1905. Volume I. Report and appendices. Simla: Government of India Foreign Department, 1906' [46v] (97/500)
The record is made up of 1 volume (246 folios). It was created in 1906. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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[Chap. V.
3 2
, t ..Up rainfall of Quetta has been re-arranged so as
In Table la of St * teme "‘ d ra infall together, the average being 8-75,
to bring the autumn, winter and P g hs from j une t0 September is only
while the average for the hot weather xhe ye ar S of flood are noted at
0-87 of an inch, a about one-tenth of the to™ ^ c J nnect the rainfal , figures
the bottom of the l abl “. 1 fuelmand. It wiU be noticed that the years 1894-95
with the floods of the Rn e * i k een years of high flood on the Hel-
and 1895-96, which are we n ° McMahon’s Mission of 1896 and Colonel
mand, being authenticated by Cojone Me Qf ^ R .. d . i . pari , n
Brazier Creagh s rainfall at Quetta, while .892-93 was a
from Shahgul, were not} flood i n Seistan. In the same way there
wet year at Quetta Q Ut ^J e j < r dbul P anc [ Kandahar in 1903-04 and .904-05, but the
was heavy snow at Q , minimum river supplies were not
floods Ofboth ^X^rth^groL^wa's^ replenished and t^ benefits will
good either. g Time does not admit of a more searching investig
ation nto the rain and snowfall records of this very interesting country but the
Studv should be made, if work is taken up m earnest. During the Afghan
campaigns and the various missions to Kabul much valuable meteorologica
Informauon must have been collected ; I have not had the time to find out if
thisTso, or not, much less to ascertain where the mformat.on .s stored.
The figures (Table 4, Statement L) given by Sir Jolin EIUot t 0 Sir William
Willcocks shew that the rainfall at Kabul isabout one-third higher t an at Que ta;
as Kabul is iust beyond the watershed of the Hazarajat, it is probable that the
snowfall in the Hazarajat is higher than at Kabul. The figures shew that tne
spring rains are sometimes very heavy. As has been said, it is these falls at the
time the snow melts that cause the great floods.
The account of the rainfall at Baghdad and of the phases of the Rivers
Tigris and Euphrates given by Sir William Willcocks in his work on the
irrigation of Mesopotamia shew that the rainfall of Asia Minor is similar to that
of Afghanistan, and the phases of the rivers of Mesopotamia are the same as
those that end in the Seistan Lake.
In Seistan throughout the hot weather months there is a cloudless sky, and
the high north by west wind blows, but in the hills there are occasional storms
of rain such as that graphically described by General Ferrier on the 16th July
1845 at Zerni, when he visited the Chalap Dalan Peak, Kuh-i-Kaisar, on the
nf thp Farah and Kash Rud.
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The first volume of reports produced by the Irrigation Officer of the Perso-Afghan Boundary Commission, Seistan [Sīstān], and submitted to the Government of India, Foreign Department.
Contents:
- 'Chapter I. The catchment area of the Seistan Lake. The trough of the Helmand River below Kala-i-Bist.'
- 'Chapter II. The delta of the Helmand River.'
- 'Chapter III. The inundated area.'
- 'Chapter IV. Canals, ancient and modern.'
- 'Chapter V. Rainfall in the Helmand basin.'
- 'Chapter VI. Note on the evaporation from the surface of water in Seistan.'
- 'Chapter VII. Lines of levels, maps, surveys, etc.'
- 'Chapter VIII. Discharge observations.'
- 'Chapter IX. The silt carried in the water of the Helmand River.'
- 'Chapter X. The volume available for the irrigation of the delta: the duty: the culturable area that could be brought under command.'
- 'Chapter XI. Probable rates of work if canals are made.'
- 'Chapter XII. Irrigation works suitable to the circumstances of the people.'
- 'Chapter XIII. Works required to gain complete control of the river for the irrigation of the delta.'
- 'Chapter XIV. Probable cost of, and income, and percentage of profit from the irrigation works.'
- 'Chapter XV. Drainage scheme for the inundated area.'
- 'Chapter XVI. Schemes for utilising some large depressions either as escape, or impounding reservoirs.'
- 'Chapter XVII. Impounding reservoirs in the trough of the Helmand: control of the floods by works in the catchment area.'
Appendices:
- 'Appendix 1. The Hazarajat and the country drained by the Farah Rud and Harud Rud.'
- 'Appendix 2. The trough of the Helmand River below Kala-i-Bist.'
- 'Appendix 3. Detailed measurements of depths of water evaporated in Seistan.'
- 'Appendix 4. Extracts from "The Irrigation of Mesopotamia" by Sir William Willcocks, KCMG.'
- 'Appendix 5. Comparison of rates at Quetta with these on the Chenab and Jhelum Canals.'
- 'Appendix 6. Rates of cost and of income on the Punjab Perennial Canals.'
- 'Appendix 7. The manufacture of lime at the Consulate, Seistan.'
- 'Appendix 8. Details of the cost of the work on the buildings erected by the Imperial Bank.'
- 'Appendix 9. Note on lime, bricks and stone for large works in Seistan.'
- 'Appendix 10. Comparison of rates likely to obtain in Mesopotamia with those in Egypt by Sir William Willcocks, KCMG.'
- 'Appendix 11. Note by W A Johns, Esq., Railway Reconnaissance Officer, on the cost of excavating in the hard Seistan clay, and driving tunnels or kariz therein.'
- 'Appendix 12. On the cost of excavation in the culturable soil of the delta and in the hard tough alluvial of the high plateaux or dasht .'
- 'Appendix 13. The meaning of the words clay and silt .'
- 'Appendix 14. Dates on which the Sar-i-Shela flowed in 1903.'
- 'Appendix 15. Expenditure incurred on the Irrigation Party.'
- 'Appendix 16. List of maps and sections packed in a tin lined case and filed in the Foreign Office, Simla.'
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- 1 volume (246 folios)
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A synopsis of contents is found at folios 12-14.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 248; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
The volume contains a higher than usual number of blank pages, which may have been the result of a printing error.
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- 'Seistan. Irrigation report of the Perso-Afghan Arbitration Commission, 1902-1905. Volume I. Report and appendices. Simla: Government of India Foreign Department, 1906'
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